When my generation was young, we were still being told that extraterrestrial life “probably” didn’t exist. This idiotic assertion was based on “lack of evidence.” If a tree falls in the forest, yadda yadda…

Then the likes of Carl Sagan, Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke came along to set things right. Using math and simple logic, they explained how extraterrestrial life “probably did” exist.

Now the hard science is kicking in.

Just this week, we found liquid water on the Moon, which we already know has oxygen and nitrogen. We know there is water on Mars, the larger moons of Jupiter, various asteroids, and on passing comets. We even know of water on newly discovered planets orbiting other stars.

In August of this year, NASA announced that an amino acid was found in their samples of a comet that passed by in 2004.

Every time they snap a new picture from the Hubble telescope, it seems another few thousand galaxies are discovered. This goes way beyond Carl Sagan’s assertion that there could be “billions and billions” of planets. Assertion is entering the heady realm of Fact.

From the teeny tiny sampling of planets, moons and comets we know about so far, the building blocks of life prove to be just about everywhere. The probability of extraterrestrial life is moving toward certainty at light speed.

When the first sign of extraterrestrial life is confirmed (the 1996 Mars Rock bacterium is still considered unproven), the probabilities of “intelligent” extraterrestrial life will also skyrocket.

We think our cat is smart if it pushes a door open. Even the most die-hard skeptics must agree that we are intelligent life, relatively speaking. So if we’re so smart, why can’t we can’t contact intelligent alien life?

Sure, they haven’t contacted us yet – that we’ve noticed, anyway. But why aren’t we contacting them? Why are we leaving them hanging?

If we continue to shun them like this, we have to expect that the more narrow-minded aliens will actually argue that we don’t exist. Based merely on the fact that they haven’t seen or heard from us yet.

How does it feel to be nothing more than a cockeyed theory of an alien life form?

Jim Lawter

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